Focus your thinking by pretending you're a journalist. Use the following journalist's questions as you outline a chapter from your textbook:

• Who? Who are the main people in this chapter?
• What? What are the main ideas in this chapter?
• Where? Where did these events take place?
• When? When did these events take place?
• Why? Why did these events happen?
• How? How did these events occur?
• Thesis statement: What is the central message of this chapter?

Use the space below each item to type in your answers. You can print this page as often as needed.

• Who? Who are the main people in this chapter?
  

   

  
  
• What? What are the main ideas in this chapter?
  

   

  
  
• Where? Where did these events take place?
  

   

  
  
• When? When did these events take place?
  

   

  
  
• Why? Why did these events happen?
  

   

  
  
• How? How did these events occur?
  

   

  
  
• Thesis statement: What is the central message of this chapter?
  

   

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